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...market's rise was not as gravity-defying as it looked. It was solidly shored up by 1) the whopping third-quarter profits of many a corporation, and 2) an increasing tendency to pass some of these profits along to stockholders in the form of bigger dividends. Chrysler, for example, which had turned in a third-quarter net of $45.4 million v. $24.1 million in the 1948 period, raised its $1.25 quarterly dividend to $1.50. The stock went up 2⅛ points in the next day's trading, to a new 1949 high...
Cutbacks. With production at a peak, General Motors pushed third-quarter sales to $1,580,405,459, up 32%. Its quarterly profit of $198.7 million v. $120.3 million in the 1948 quarter was the biggest in corporation history. In expectation of an extra dividend, G.M. stock rose to a new 1949 high of 68. But General Motors' President Charles E. Wilson and Chrysler's President K. T. Keller both warned that the steel strike had hurt even if it should end this week...
General Electric Co.'s net of $21,060,037 was off about 28%. But second-place Westinghouse had turned in $20.5 million, a 109% gain that pushed it nearly abreast of its giant rival. Westinghouse's President Gwilym Price gratefully added 40? to the usual 25? quarterly dividend and Westinghouse stock joined the big group* of those who boosted dividends and made new highs on the big board...
Leading the market were the television shares, notably Admiral Corp., which declared a 100% stock dividend. For those who still swore by the Dow theory, regardless of its confusing "signals," there was also reason to cheer. The railroad average, lagging behind the industrial, now broke through last March's "resistance" point. To some Dow theorists, that was a sign that a bull market was in the making...
...only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable and profitable...